The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.

. . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me. . . .

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

Silence gives notice to the music of the senses that would otherwise not be heard.

A house can be replaced but never a lost life.

influence flows across networks up to three degrees away. What your friends’ friends eat or do or think will influence what you eat or do or think—but further connections will not.

I am longing to show him my love, but not by doing what is wrong

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

Minho looked at Thomas, a serious expression on his face. "If I don't see you on the other side," he said in a sappy voice, "remember that I love you.

Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

For me, being memorable is more important than winning.